maternity toughts

you were always be a daddy girl, even during my pregnancy: you began to move when you heard daddy’s voice! and daddy is still your hero, your buddy, your everything! sometimes i’m happy to see how much you love each other and i’m proud of the man i married! he’s a great dad, even if he’s often more a playmate than the adult between you two!
but sometimes it’s difficult to see your special relationship from outside, without living it from inside… during a normal week daddy is at home around 7pm so we had the whole afternoon to play and i have the sensation that it’s right that you give him all the attentions when he’s home. but now that we’re on holiday it’s … different…. you’re with daddy 24/7 and we don’t have a girlish moment just for the two of us.
of course that’s just a perception. the true is that you play with daddy but you want the same nail colour as me, you look at me while i dress saying “that’s nice” and you want to wear my make up to look as me… and if i wear a hat or sunglasses tale (as you call yourself) wants the same. and i smile! you’re growing so fast and i want to enjoy every single moment, from inside and from outside!

camping – part II

yesterday morning the weather was not so good so we tried one of the camping’s activity: the fun park! zoeti was a little scared by all those gigantic inflatable games but after a while she had fun as well!

there is also a playground inside

do you have any idea of how long it took me to come out with my big belly!?!

    zoeti wanted to have a splash in the swimming pool but the water was so cold! here my little princess is taking a coccola (cuddle) with mommy    with that weather the beach was almost empty, but i love it that way… so romantic!

daddy style…

mama style!

our babymoon

We're on our babymoon or, as we italians say... We're on holiday!! We don't have babymoon in our culture but it's an holiday, the last one before baby's coming, just the three of us... We can call it 'babymoon' right?! 

We decided to come back to the same camping of the past year: Ca savio camping in Ca Savio (you can see my last experience here, here and here). We love this camping and it's always a great choice: Giulio spent here a lot of holidays when he was a child and during the past years we came once a year to visit giulio's aunt, uncle and cousins during their holidays. We can call it our 'family camping'. 

unfortunately these days are not so warm and sunny but we found a lot to do as well!

our plan was to stay in the water without actually get wet…. turns out i’m not a good driver! zoeti was completely wet when i leaded!

washing shells

  

she falls in love with this playground and she’s learning to go to the swing for big kids!

   watching videos on daddy’s iphone before sleeping

being the three of us is nice but zoeti is always looking for kids to play with! unfortunately we are surronded by germans and dutch so it’s not so easy for her to understand or communicate with them, but they’re kids: give them a ball or a playground and they will best friends for the day! i love that she goes and play with them with no fear, even when they’re older, but i’m so looking forward to see my two littles playing togheter!!

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Zoe Tiare: when you saw the sea yesterday you were so happy that you started to run inside and outside playing with waves! it’s such a joy when you laugh and laugh!! unfortunately the weather wasn’t (and still isn’t) that good so we had to keep you on the beach… but you had fun anyway!!

Me and my belly: 32 weeks. for this week doctor’s orders are: rest! the baby isn’t growing as he/she should so restand well eating is mandatory! lucky me that i have everything i ever wanted: my family 24/7, the sea and a great excuse for doing nothing!!

between packing and worries for the baby’s grow i didn’t have time to check the other pictures… so no favorites this week!

 thank you Jodi

coffee cookies

first mix the butter, the egg, coffee and sugar until you have a kind of cream.

then add the flour with a little bit of bicarbonate.

create a shape for your biscuits and put them in the oven at 170° for 15 minutes

enjoy!

stills… a perfect sunday

last sunday was nothing less than perfect. we had a baby party with all the zoeti’s pals from nursery school in the morning, we discovered a garden in the centre of the city where we live that i’ve never seen before, and took a ride to the first local feast of the season. in the evening i was deeply tired but zoeti had a lot of fun and spend some time as a family with no worries such as cleaning or cooking is so precious!

my little butterfly!

she absolutely loved the place chosen for the nursery school party! and the teachers have painted the faces of almost every kid! we definitely have to keep in mind the place for the long, cold, rainy winter!

in the afternoon we discovered a secret garden right in the centre of our city (ok… it’s not so secret, but it’s always closed! find it open was a fluke!)

  and in the evening we joined a local feast for a horse race!

as i said… a perfect sunday!

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   "a portrait of my family, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Zoe Tiare: last lesson of our mommy & baby swimming course. i loved it and you learnt how to use a lifesaver all by yourself! i’m proud of my little fish!

me & my belly: 31 weeks. trying to get in touch with mother earth.

my favorite of the last week are: lamb’s portrait with her noise maker, these two little sisters and jessica’s portrait.

jodi’s project here